GameThread: Baltimore Orioles at Boston Red Sox, Sep 8, 2009
by 0157H7 on Sep 8, 2009 7:02 PM EDT
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That's right. It's on. Crunch time.
The Orioles come in to Boston in a tense, furious race for the division with the Red Sox. The two teams have slugged it out all season, and now the young team's playoff hopes rest on this series.
... Oh, sorry, I'm looking at the future. 3 Years from now. Or is it 5? 10? Whenever it is, we'll never see those wacky Orioles coming (see picture on the left for proof of wackiness).
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Mine had a better pic…
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Or it won't let me delete my own post...
Odd.
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I deleted it.
Sorry about that. I would’ve held off if I knew you were working on one.
"It's just a tiny little nick, but it hurts when I get champagne in there."
- Jason Bay, on getting spiked scoring the winning run in ALDS Game Four.
held off on posting this thread,
that is. Your hard work is appreciated, however.
"It's just a tiny little nick, but it hurts when I get champagne in there."
- Jason Bay, on getting spiked scoring the winning run in ALDS Game Four.
Well, let me tell you
I SLAVED over this thread. Hours of intense thought and decision. I certainly did not write it in fifteen seconds. No siree, bob.
"It's just a tiny little nick, but it hurts when I get champagne in there."
- Jason Bay, on getting spiked scoring the winning run in ALDS Game Four.
Nice pic of a Detroit Tiger player, btw.
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Spielberg called
He wants to option this thread for a treatment.
by Mister Snitch on Sep 8, 2009 7:17 PM EDT up reply actions
No way, man.
I’m holding out for Michael FUCKING Bay, dude. And I want the lead actor, playing me, to be Chuck FUCKING Norris. And an underwater skateboard chase scene with underwater exFUCKINGplosions. And there has to be a cameo with Dennis Rodman…
"It's just a tiny little nick, but it hurts when I get champagne in there."
- Jason Bay, on getting spiked scoring the winning run in ALDS Game Four.
Texas and Cleveland tied in Game 1 of 2
Texas has 2 on and 1 out.
I gotta go 'cause I'm probably definitely gonna nod out again.
I'm watching it.
Not a lot of focus on Cleveland’s part. Andrus stole 2nd, and then he stole 3rd without a throw.
"All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth." -Ted Williams
Feliz allowed 2 inherited runners to score last inning
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by Drugs Delaney on Sep 8, 2009 7:06 PM EDT up reply actions
Not tied anymore
Byrd: 3-run HR
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by Drugs Delaney on Sep 8, 2009 7:07 PM EDT up reply actions
Oh IDK maybe a spot on the team next year.
They have some depth on the farm now.
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Tex-8 Cle-5.
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Dice-K pitching for Salem tomorrow.
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Unrelated topic
But Salem has (arguably) New England’s premier museum for Asian artwork and culture, the Peabody Essex Museum.
"It's just a tiny little nick, but it hurts when I get champagne in there."
- Jason Bay, on getting spiked scoring the winning run in ALDS Game Four.
And an awesome witchcraft museum.
/Obvious
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I don't know if there's a witchcraft museum.
Around Halloween they attract a lot if tourists because of the witch trials.
"It's just a tiny little nick, but it hurts when I get champagne in there."
- Jason Bay, on getting spiked scoring the winning run in ALDS Game Four.
Lots of animitronics:
http://www.salemwitchmuseum.com/
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You been there?
"It's just a tiny little nick, but it hurts when I get champagne in there."
- Jason Bay, on getting spiked scoring the winning run in ALDS Game Four.
No worries
1 out
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by Drugs Delaney on Sep 8, 2009 7:14 PM EDT up reply actions
Made short work of Pie
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by Drugs Delaney on Sep 8, 2009 7:15 PM EDT up reply actions
Tex-8 Cle-6.
"All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth." -Ted Williams
Hafner just took Feliz deep
Cuts Texas’ lead to 8-6.
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Laporta up.
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Laporta was a gator?
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Hell yeah.
TONS of homers in 2005 – I got his autograph after a game the next season against Harvard. Kinda disturbing how many chants we could come up with to bash a team called “The Cardinal”
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My prediction for Laporta is that he will put up Ryan Braun numbers.
Maybe not next year, but in the near future.
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Sombody must have taken Ells and put in an imposter.
Ells actually worked a walk.
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Dusty!!!!
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Okay, NOW can he stop swinging for the moon?
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When the sox go on the road
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Geez, VMart crushed that
Wrong part of the ballpark, though.
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Yoouuuk!
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So... Buch can work on his stuff tonight?
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No, that's what I thought he could do in Baltimore.
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looks like that's what he's up to
fastballs and I guess changeups, fewer curves
by Mister Snitch on Sep 8, 2009 7:28 PM EDT up reply actions
K #1.
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Choo comes through.
Tex-8 Cle-7.
"All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth." -Ted Williams
Cleveland got another run
RBI single by Choo.
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Gesundheit.
"It's just a tiny little nick, but it hurts when I get champagne in there."
- Jason Bay, on getting spiked scoring the winning run in ALDS Game Four.
Hey, the Sox actually put that 19 year old on the 40 man roster?
Iglesias, I mean. He’s on the expanded roster. That’s a surprise, at least to me.
Damn rules.
Where’s MassGal when you need a compliance law person?
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That's always how it is.
Never a lawyer when you need one…
"It's just a tiny little nick, but it hurts when I get champagne in there."
- Jason Bay, on getting spiked scoring the winning run in ALDS Game Four.
Ha!
I bet there are some ambulance drivers who would say lawyers are around whether you want them or not
"You know," Girardi said, shrugging his shoulders, "it didn't work."
( Joe Girardi on pitching to Manny Ramirez with first base open)
that good, huh
Still surprised to see him on the roster. Awful lotta semi-operable shortstops and first basemen floating around the clubhouse.
by Mister Snitch on Sep 8, 2009 7:45 PM EDT up reply actions
I heard that too
Yeah, he can’t hit AT ALL apparently. Well, if he’s the real deal in the field, that’s where you traditionally accept a weak bat. His is REALLY weak though.
by Mister Snitch on Sep 8, 2009 7:49 PM EDT up reply actions
Wow, this Buchholz kid looks pretty good.
I think maybe someday he could throw a no-hitter.
"It's just a tiny little nick, but it hurts when I get champagne in there."
- Jason Bay, on getting spiked scoring the winning run in ALDS Game Four.
Yeah, it's been a bass-ackwards path for Buchholz
but he seems to have finally arrived.
by Mister Snitch on Sep 8, 2009 7:41 PM EDT up reply actions
[Tek picks up Clay to celebrate no-no]
Clay: “Hey, this doesn’t mean I have to throw one of these every time, right?”
Tek: “Oh, damn, I thought you read that pamphlet, kid.”
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Borbon just hit another HR.
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Cleveland's pen strikes again.
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Hmm, TE Gresham's out for the season for Oklahoma.
They’re screwed.
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A-Going Going Going A-GON!
"It's just a tiny little nick, but it hurts when I get champagne in there."
- Jason Bay, on getting spiked scoring the winning run in ALDS Game Four.
Gonzo goes deep!
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Very deep
Mid parking lot.
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by Drugs Delaney on Sep 8, 2009 7:47 PM EDT up reply actions
A-Gon with the 12-game hitting streak
I think he’s also around 50 at-bats without a walk, iirc.
"It's just a tiny little nick, but it hurts when I get champagne in there."
- Jason Bay, on getting spiked scoring the winning run in ALDS Game Four.
Excuse me,
81 plate appearances without a walk.
"It's just a tiny little nick, but it hurts when I get champagne in there."
- Jason Bay, on getting spiked scoring the winning run in ALDS Game Four.
David Hernandez:
Not to be confused with some American Idol contestant who performed at a strip club.
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I dunno
but he left this silver seabass behind
by Mister Snitch on Sep 8, 2009 7:50 PM EDT up reply actions
Working in more ways than one, then.
When have we even seen the changeup tonight?
Also, the slider has remarkably little downward break. That could be an interesting pitch when you consider how much his curveball dips.
3-9 Slider.
And there has to have been at least one change.
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K #2.
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Tex-11 Cle-7.
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Can Francisco blow a 4-run lead?
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by Drugs Delaney on Sep 8, 2009 7:58 PM EDT up reply actions
He's trying.
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Odds that Dusty reaches 17 by the end of the season?
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LaPorta: 2-run HR
Cleveland down by 2.
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You don't understand. That is their specialty.
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Texas won
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by Drugs Delaney on Sep 8, 2009 8:07 PM EDT up reply actions
Easily the worst pen in the majors.
Don’t give me an ERA stat. When the games count, they are at their worst. They gave up 4 or 5 run leads day after day.
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4th worst WPA/LI in the majors for a pen:
http//www.fangraphs.com/teams.aspx?pos=all&stats=rel&lg=all&type=3&season=2009&month=0
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OK, but that doesn't show only the time from the start of the season to the time
they dropped out of the race. Plus, they did acquire some players. Chris Perez is one, and I think there was one other. Besides, Cleveland is notorious for winning games when it doesn’t matter.
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Cle loses game 1.
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The owner and front office are absolute idiots.
They traded away the heart and soul of the team. They were 1 or 2 pen arms and maybe a 3/4 starter away from being a world series contender. Mid way through the season, they had more runs scored than the sox and maybe the Rays IIRC.
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Yeah, I'd resist it.
It’s hard to find the right angle for those jokes.
"It's just a tiny little nick, but it hurts when I get champagne in there."
- Jason Bay, on getting spiked scoring the winning run in ALDS Game Four.
JD!!
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Jeez, only 20.
What an overpaid @$$hole.
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that IS funny
If they bleeped out the ass I guess you’d have to figure out what kind of hole it was, though. And that would distract terribly from the commercials, so…
by Mister Snitch on Sep 8, 2009 8:22 PM EDT up reply actions
or a sinkhole or wormhole,
Cornhole sounds dirty, even though its separate parts aren’t.
by Mister Snitch on Sep 8, 2009 8:26 PM EDT up reply actions
Woah, a pitcher named Lambert.
Did they host a camp at Idol tryouts?
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Unless you're Burnett...
And you walk 10 people before the hit is given up.
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9 BB
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Clay recovers quickly.
Down 2-0 after giving up a walk and a hit, he’d be done last year.
So nice to have confidence that he won’t implode this year.
It's more than just in the context of a single game, too.
He’s had 2 terrible starts this year—7 earned in under 5 innings.
After the first game, he pitched 6 innings giving up 2 runs.
The start after the second game was the dominance against Toronto.
Kid isn’t scared anymore.
And
He has great stuff.
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by Drugs Delaney on Sep 8, 2009 8:29 PM EDT up reply actions
Always had that.
Nasty curve, nasty change, can hit 95 with movement on his fastball.
And that slider is intriguing.
I'm expecting big things from him next year
Beckett-Lester-Buchholz could form one of the best top-of-the-rotations in baseball. A healthy Dice-K could be a good #4.
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by Drugs Delaney on Sep 8, 2009 8:32 PM EDT up reply actions
Who would you have 5th?
Wake might be the obvious choice, but sooner or later we’ll have to move him. He spent too long on the DL this year for my tastes.
"It's just a tiny little nick, but it hurts when I get champagne in there."
- Jason Bay, on getting spiked scoring the winning run in ALDS Game Four.
'Kid isn’t scared anymore.'
He seems confident. And you know, I wouldn’t MIND seeing his move to first more now. He used to throw over to avoid throwing the next pitch, but not now.
by Mister Snitch on Sep 8, 2009 8:30 PM EDT up reply actions
yup
And now with a big lead he should just throw the ball over the plate, he can afford to give up runs. Make ‘em hit it. Pitch in context. That’s what a big game pitcher does.
by Mister Snitch on Sep 8, 2009 8:29 PM EDT up reply actions
I guess.
Hopefully they haven’t screwed with his mechanics either.
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K #3.
"All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth." -Ted Williams
His slider is up in the zone too much tonight
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It worked when he was throwing it outside.
Makes it tempting to swing at.
But it’s definitely a work in progress pitch. Picked a good time to work on it though, y’know?
His other stuff is good tonight
So the O’s can’t sit on any one pitch. That makes his bad slider (tonight) better.
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by Drugs Delaney on Sep 8, 2009 8:37 PM EDT up reply actions
The only time Clay seems to get hurt is when he can't locate his fastball.
I haven’t noticed a lot of nights where his curve or change are off. If he’s got both of those working every night, he’s gonna be a force.
Which is why Theo was reluctant to trade him, and why everyone wanted him
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by Drugs Delaney on Sep 8, 2009 8:41 PM EDT up reply actions
Truth
Not a lot of guys it makes sense to trade Buchholz for. Obviously, Felix was one of those few, but otherwise we didn’t see his name coming from the Sox a lot.
K #4.
"All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth." -Ted Williams
It looks like he is
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by Drugs Delaney on Sep 8, 2009 8:36 PM EDT up reply actions
Nice job - pitching around a lead-off double
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Who feels good
about Buchholz in October?
"It's just a tiny little nick, but it hurts when I get champagne in there."
- Jason Bay, on getting spiked scoring the winning run in ALDS Game Four.
Better than I do Dice-k or Wake.
"All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth." -Ted Williams
Dice-K has made one good start in the playoffs
Wake is hit or miss—and he’s hurt. I think Buchholz may already be better than Dice-K.
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by Drugs Delaney on Sep 8, 2009 8:43 PM EDT up reply actions
dice-k came up huge in 2007
as i’m sure you know, in game seven. that was his first year in the bigs and he wasnt rattled. thats what im talking about. and the discussion is kind of stupid actaully becuase the four starters in the playoffs are obviously going to be Beckett, Lester, Dice K and Buchholz. Switch the order of the last two, it doesnt matter. byrd wont be in there and neither will wake, except out of desperation, and only if hes healthy
You're kinda relying heavily on Dice-K there...
And that’s only one start.
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not out of preference
out of necessity. in case you havent noticed our other options are byrd, tazawa, and wakefield.
Why all the Wake hate?
I realize he’s gimpy and had a meh outing last time, but there’s no reason to think he can’t do good for us in October.
B/c I'd rather not put a ton of reliance on a knuckleball.
It’s fine in non-crucial situations, but I’d prefer a pitcher who has control over his pitches and whether or not they work.
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Too many HR.
"All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth." -Ted Williams
knuckler gets you thru the season
but the playoff are another matter
by Mister Snitch on Sep 8, 2009 8:55 PM EDT up reply actions
I meant that Buchho's the 3 because he's going to be there...
barring some catastrophe. Dice-K’s still a question mark.
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Huge?!?!
Here are his post-season game logs in 2007:
ALDS Game 2 – 4.2 IP 7 H 3 ER 3 BB 3 K (96 pitches). The Sox pen threw 4.1 IP of no-hit, shut-out ball.
ALCS Game 3 – 4.2 IP 6 H 4 ER 2 BB 6 K (101 pitches) The pen made this close by going 3.1 scoreless
ALCS Game 7 – 5 IP 6 H 2 ER 0 BB 3 K (86 pitches) Oki and Paps were the story here. Each went 2 scoreless innings.
WS Game 3 – 5.1 IP 3 H 2 ER 3 BB 5 K (101 pitches) The Sox gave him a 6-run lead and he could even go 6 IP.
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by Drugs Delaney on Sep 8, 2009 8:54 PM EDT up reply actions
He did get a hit in the WS though.
So there’s that.
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More RBI than A-Rod that year
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by Drugs Delaney on Sep 8, 2009 8:57 PM EDT up reply actions
well i was talking specifically about his start in game seven
which was good. but it looks like he also had a good start in the WS.
Those aren't good starts
They adequate, at best. Innings are very important.
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by Drugs Delaney on Sep 8, 2009 9:01 PM EDT up reply actions
Me too.
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by Drugs Delaney on Sep 8, 2009 8:41 PM EDT up reply actions
im not sure i do
i still believe in Daisuke as a veteran who will not get rattled in any situation. Buchholz has shown great improvement mentally over the past year, and another month on pennant baseball should develop him even further. But seeing as a postseason is four men, and paul byrd and tim wakefield should be nowhere near it, daisuke would help a lot by being healthy. the experience and talent are there, and i bet the shoulder is too. nothing wrong with the young guy buchholz pitching fourth though
Meh.
Still not the same as a postseason in the MLB.
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well thats not true
he’s thrown 250 more innings in the regular season and he’s pitched a couple postseasons, and i was including his time in japan
Dice averaged 5 IP in the post-season
His only good start was Game 2 of the ALCS last year. Otherwise, he has been nothing special.
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by Drugs Delaney on Sep 8, 2009 8:44 PM EDT up reply actions
he's been decent
ERA of 4.79. nothing special but mentally tough and gave us a chance
I'd love to see Daisuke come back to form, certainly.
But just as he doesn’t get rattled, he also doesn’t pitch to situations. I’m worried about this pen going 4 innings after a 5 inning start from Daisuke. I’d say I trust Buck to manage 7 innings more than I’d trust Matsuzaka.
+1
But I’d settle for 6.
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by Drugs Delaney on Sep 8, 2009 8:46 PM EDT up reply actions
At least Beckett and Lester are guys you can usually trust to go deep.
Workhorses are a big help in October. A 5 inning Daisuke performance wouldn’t be so bad with Wagner and Paps ready to go and Beckett available to give them the night off.
Before we worry who is going to pitch in the postseason
lets get there! We are only up 2 games probably 2.5 because of the lead we have now. That is not over or even close to over.
what happens if we get swept by someone and texas sweeps. It's perfectly possible.
But I think this team is good enough to not collapse.
We still play a much more managable schedule.
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And that's the worst it gets.
After that, its a few vs. the Rays, and then a buncha fish.
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this argument is kind of pointless though
because unless we have wakefield, byrd or tazawa going, its going to be buch and dice k. the only thing i can imagine people are considering is that wake will be in the rotation, which he wont be
very very good
Number Two after Lester, ’cause who knows what will come from Beckett?
by Mister Snitch on Sep 8, 2009 8:50 PM EDT up reply actions
I trust Beckett.
He’s having a fine year. Hit a rough patch with the homers but had a good game yesterday, has always had the Ks going, etc.
Nice hitting by VMart
Our first non-HR hit.
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He looked safe.
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by Drugs Delaney on Sep 8, 2009 9:02 PM EDT up reply actions
3-0
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4-0
"All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth." -Ted Williams
He should be tossed
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by Drugs Delaney on Sep 8, 2009 9:06 PM EDT up reply actions
Bannister, Olendorf, Scherzer, etc.
Awesome.
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Your name Inigo Montoya, by any chance?
"It's just a tiny little nick, but it hurts when I get champagne in there."
- Jason Bay, on getting spiked scoring the winning run in ALDS Game Four.
He isn't good
He may be hot now. But he’ll cool off and suck. He has always been a poor hitter. It would be foolish to count on him.
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by Drugs Delaney on Sep 8, 2009 9:07 PM EDT up reply actions
No, but if he takes Lowrie's playing time then, yes.
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Gonzo is healthy, and he plays like he is in the Special Olympics.
"All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth." -Ted Williams
Umm... he's been playing perfectly fine in the minors for a while, save for a glitchy check swing or two.
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One could say the same about you and Gonzo.
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Most of last season.
With a broken wrist = average SS.
With a healthy wrist > average SS.
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81 exactly.
306 PAs of .326 wOBA – we don’t know when the injury happened, so we can’t split it.
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Actually, the big problems started in May
He got hit by a pitch in the wrist, and was never quite the same since then.
Odd:
Still managed to be a ~.350 wOBA batter after that.
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Remember when Chris Ray was their closer?
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by Drugs Delaney on Sep 8, 2009 9:08 PM EDT up reply actions
The same reason Woodward is in
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by Drugs Delaney on Sep 8, 2009 9:11 PM EDT up reply actions
Expect Kottaras to come in when Buchh's night is over
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by Drugs Delaney on Sep 8, 2009 9:12 PM EDT up reply actions
Good, I'd like to see him.
"All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth." -Ted Williams
We've won more than our fair share too
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by Drugs Delaney on Sep 8, 2009 9:15 PM EDT up reply actions
*cough*rain delay, smoltz, masterson*cough*
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OK OK
not against the O’s on a Smoltzless team then.
This is the post-experimental era.
by Mister Snitch on Sep 8, 2009 9:18 PM EDT up reply actions
No.
For guilt by association, which is a civil matter, you just need a preponderance of the evidence.
"It's just a tiny little nick, but it hurts when I get champagne in there."
- Jason Bay, on getting spiked scoring the winning run in ALDS Game Four.
To give Ells a rest
I gotta go 'cause I'm probably definitely gonna nod out again.
by Drugs Delaney on Sep 8, 2009 9:10 PM EDT up reply actions
well, geez...
while we’re at it why not put the kid shortstop in and slide Gonzo to second, sit Petey down for once
by Mister Snitch on Sep 8, 2009 9:13 PM EDT up reply actions
I forgot Woodward was in there for Petey already
but I would still make the move, yeah
by Mister Snitch on Sep 8, 2009 9:16 PM EDT up reply actions
Tex-5 Cle-0
"All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth." -Ted Williams
Maybe he's tipping his pitches
I gotta go 'cause I'm probably definitely gonna nod out again.
by Drugs Delaney on Sep 8, 2009 9:20 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
He was supposed to go golfing today?
Best I can do.
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The Kazmir symptom?
Lots of pitchers have to move around the rubber to work the zone right.
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yeah, he said he found out his foot wasn't touching the rubber
I mean, one day he was sure to find out he forgot to wear pants, too.
by Mister Snitch on Sep 8, 2009 9:29 PM EDT up reply actions
Maybe he just sucks.
"All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth." -Ted Williams
+1 and rec.
I think if he just finds the right pitching coach, he can figure it out…
"It's just a tiny little nick, but it hurts when I get champagne in there."
- Jason Bay, on getting spiked scoring the winning run in ALDS Game Four.
I just shut that game off.
"All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth." -Ted Williams
K #5
"All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth." -Ted Williams
Oh, sure.
The MFY have their shaving cream face pie ritual, we have the high-school-shove-the-dork-in-the-locker-routine. Just gotta hope he doesn’t revert to stealing stuff…
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his consistency from game to game
has been very impressive
by Mister Snitch on Sep 8, 2009 9:25 PM EDT up reply actions
Except for the 2 blowups.
But let’s not talk about those when we’ve got awesome games like tonight and Toronto to talk about.
Papi!!
"All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth." -Ted Williams
The Large Father crushes one
Welcome back
I gotta go 'cause I'm probably definitely gonna nod out again.
Reddick PH
"All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth." -Ted Williams
It's the Chro-nicles, Chro, Chro-nicles of Reddick.
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IF single
I gotta go 'cause I'm probably definitely gonna nod out again.
by Drugs Delaney on Sep 8, 2009 9:30 PM EDT up reply actions
Where'd Rocky Cherry go after we released him?
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I think he talked to Ben and Jerry
and got them to name an ice cream after him.
"It's just a tiny little nick, but it hurts when I get champagne in there."
- Jason Bay, on getting spiked scoring the winning run in ALDS Game Four.
He works for Hagen-Dasz now
had to be said
by Mister Snitch on Sep 8, 2009 9:33 PM EDT up reply actions
Please, please, please.
HOLY SHUYGY&UG that’s a lot of subs – no Jed? :(
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I have seen Saltpeter
It is not a myth…
"It's just a tiny little nick, but it hurts when I get champagne in there."
- Jason Bay, on getting spiked scoring the winning run in ALDS Game Four.
I can keep myself under control just fine, thanks.
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Mhm.
You’ve obviously missed the many discussions we’ve had on this subject
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Cool
"All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth." -Ted Williams
Everything's worked out this game
I say these Orioles are stout fellows. Let’s have them over often.
Phil Hughes gave up a HR to Bartlett to tie the game
Nice to see Hughes losae a lead.
I gotta go 'cause I'm probably definitely gonna nod out again.
Hughes has been unreal, that's for sure
ever since they put him in the pen. I swear, that turned the whole team around.
by Mister Snitch on Sep 8, 2009 9:45 PM EDT up reply actions
Evening All!
Go Sox!!
"You know," Girardi said, shrugging his shoulders, "it didn't work."
( Joe Girardi on pitching to Manny Ramirez with first base open)
Hey
"All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth." -Ted Williams
Oh, sure, NOW you turn up.
[see up in thread]
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Howdy
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by Drugs Delaney on Sep 8, 2009 9:47 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm happy.
Didn’t get any plays though.
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Because it's scrub time, and Gonzo is a scrub
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by Drugs Delaney on Sep 8, 2009 9:48 PM EDT up reply actions
Yay
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Don't know
My thoughts exactly.
I gotta go 'cause I'm probably definitely gonna nod out again.
by Drugs Delaney on Sep 8, 2009 9:49 PM EDT up reply actions
So that the fans don't go crazy if he Ks or something.
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Better for him to K now.
"All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth." -Ted Williams
His problems seem to be aggravated mainly by LH swings.
So we might only see him batting against lefties for a while..
True.
Would be nice if he doesn’t have to check swing anytime soon.
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In other news, Lidge is on the verge of blowing another save.
"All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth." -Ted Williams
Yup
I gotta go 'cause I'm probably definitely gonna nod out again.
by Drugs Delaney on Sep 8, 2009 9:55 PM EDT up reply actions
Actually, he's looked meh in the minors, getting lucky a lot.
His stuff didn’t look great in his last appearance.
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just meant that
he hasn’t looked good lATELY. Don’t know what’s up with him.
by Mister Snitch on Sep 8, 2009 11:06 PM EDT up reply actions
Game over.
"All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth." -Ted Williams
Good Night All!
"You know," Girardi said, shrugging his shoulders, "it didn't work."
( Joe Girardi on pitching to Manny Ramirez with first base open)
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